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This is limited to BIOS-based booting, and there isn't really a whole lot of choice there. There's no standardised mechanism for bootloader configuration in the
by mjg59 11y ago
This is limited to BIOS-based booting, and there isn't really a whole lot of choice there. There's no standardised mechanism for bootloader configuration in the BIOS world, so you have the choice of either:
(a) overwriting the existing MBR, or
(b) knowing how to configure every single third party bootloader, or
(c) not booting
In the UEFI world, the Windows installer won't overwrite any files it didn't install.
- digi_owl 11y agoUEFI brings with it all kinds of other lovelies though. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIyOTg https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIyOTg Kinda reminds me of the issues Linux has run into with ACPI, and here are some lovely emails from Torvalds regarding that: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/acpi.html http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/acpi.html